Metamorphic evolution of the Gran Paradiso Massif: A case study of an eclogitic metagabbro and a polymetamorphic glaucophane-garnet micaschist

Lithos

Volumn 115, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 101-120

  Gasco, Ivano ^a   Borghi, Alessandro ^a   Gattiglio, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Exhumation; Gran Paradiso; P T path; Polycyclic metamorphism; Pseudosection; Western Italian Alps

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; COOLING; DECOMPRESSION; ECLOGITE; EXHUMATION; FOLIATION; GARNET; GLAUCOPHANE; METAGABBRO; METAPELITE; P-T CONDITIONS; P-T-T PATH; REGIONAL METAMORPHISM; SOURCE ROCK; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE METAMORPHISM;

ALPS; GRAIAN ALPS; GRAN PARADISO; ITALY; PIEDMONT [ITALY]; WESTERN ALPS;

EID: 76349095129     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2009.11.009     Document Type: Article

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